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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

August Corrodi (1826–1885)

Corrodi, August (kor-rō’dē). A Swiss poet and painter (1826–85); born at Zürich. His first volume of ‘Songs’ (1853) exhibited graceful versification and deep sympathy with nature. His songs and dramatic compositions in the local dialect—‘Mr. Professor, an Idyll of Zürich’; ‘The Vicar, a Winter Idyll’; etc.—had extraordinary success.